Politics is an interesting thing: what and why the politician says, does he have an ulterior motive, etc. There are places where politics is just economy, interest assertion, momentary conflict management, and a technical game of power. We also have philosophy.
We like to understand our lives and goals: who we are, where we belong, where we came from, where we are going.
Viktor Orbán regularly deals with these topics as well, he is constantly searching and grinding, he wants to understand the driving forces, he is looking for answers to current problems just as much as to the great questions of existence or the nation's destiny.
In his speech in Tusvány this year - among many other important things - a word appeared, which has kept public life in the country at a fever pitch ever since. Opinions are divided as to how consciously the prime minister used the terms race and racial mixing, or whether he intended it as a rubber band, trying to divert attention from something else. Both its supporters and its opponents, depending on their point of view and temperament, fell for the analysis of the text.
In the country of ten million soccer coaches, virologists and military experts, the "biologists" immediately responded that there is only one human species. It's true, because any two people living on the globe - important addition: only one man and one woman!!! - can create offspring capable of reproduction. However, neither the prime minister, nor the media, nor politicians use the term in a biological sense. Like it or not, colloquial language is looser than scientific jargon. Instead of Mongolian, we often talk about Tatarstan, instead of the United Kingdom, we often talk about England, we talk about our weight, even though there is a problem with the mass, and everyone calls the square notebook a checkered one.
The discourse on racial mixing is only problematic in Europe, which has certain historical antecedents.
In the Western world, this is considered a taboo, which otherwise does not particularly affect the rest of the world: tribal-racial-ethnic wars and persecutions are taking place everywhere, but philosophical studies are not attached to it. (Nota bene: the anti-Russian measures of the West - the economic-political-cultural-sports sanctions - are also examples of ethnic exclusion.)
Cultures are racist almost everywhere, but only in Europe have they developed a self-flagellation and self-punishing mechanism. Even if an Asian or African accuses a European of racism more recently, it is based on the Europeans' own train of thought. A Japanese or a Congolese would not think of it.
the full article from Vasarnap here.
Author: Zsolt Ungváry
Image: Prime Minister's Press Office
